Wednesday, April 30, 2008

COMMENTS: Baseball players can be a superstitious lot. Bloggers, not so much—that is, until their team is on a four-game winning streak with a fifth win representing the difference between a losing April and a winning April. SoSG is doing its part to keep the streak alive, because who knows: Maybe, just maybe, the Dodgers' recent success has something to do with Game Threads being posted at four minutes after the hour. Or with me (Orel) writing them. Okay, we're not that deluded, but we're also not going to change our ways until the Dodgers lose.

2) Giants beat the Rockies 3-2 after being down 2-1. Mixed feelings on this as it's fine to have them both beat each other up, form a standings perspective--but it's always tough seeing the Giants win.

Tomorrow's game is at 9 am west coast time. Will this be a scheduled off-day for Martin? I read somewhere today that Loney will have the day off (in favor of Sweeney), so that seems like it would be bad timing, I guess.

I cannot express how much I don't care about Speed Racer. Earlier this week I was trying to decide if there had ever been a big movie I was less interested in, and I couldn't think of one.

Ironman will win this weekend, if only because I don't think that Patrick Dempsey movie is going to win. Word of mouth should be good for Ironman, though, so if it doesn't win in week two, it'll make a decent showing.

I really don't like the brothers (or brother and sister, considering one of them is a full-on transsexual who prefers to be called by a female name--Lana). Sorry, but I wasn't a Matrix fan. I liked Bound, and I loved V for Vendetta, but they didn't direct that, only produced it.

Plus, I hate the star of Speed Racer. I know people who worked on the movie, and there are enough stories to make that kid seem like the biggest prima donna on the planet.

Yes, he is and i'm in love with the idea. They have a kid, who throws 100 mph heat and i guess he could be a great influence. His name is Henry Rodriguez and he's on the Oakland roster of 40 (Thanks Lord) .

I know how to create a screen shot, but it's different on Macs. If you have a Mac Steve, hit Apple-Shift-3. You'll hear a little shutter noise and the thing will show up as "picture 1" on your desktop.